The Benefits of hEDS/HSD
The following brief summary is excerpted from Hypermobile and Happy. Be sure to read the book to get more detailed information, including source citations.
HEDS/HSD Is Serious, But Has Good Points It may be making you or someone you love feel really bad, but we ought to look at the other side of the condition, too. Once you have healed your hypermobility-related symptoms, your hypermobility qualities will become your super powers.
Hypermobility Is Attractive People with hypermobility conditions tend to be very attractive. First of all, flexibility is beautiful — it is sexy. Even if we reduce our hyperflexibility for the sake of our health, we will always maintain an above average range of motion that gives us grace. We can move with fluidity and agility, which is enjoyable to do and pleasant to watch.
Hypermobility Is Youthful Whether we are plump or slender, we are nice to look at and often look younger than our age. We may not feel healthy, but with this “invisible illness,” we usually look attractively healthy. People with hypermobility are often long-lived; the physical problems presented by the condition do not diminish life expectancy. When simple precautions are taken in response to our specific health needs, people with hypermobility can be surprisingly spry and full of vitality even when they are quite old.
Hypermobility Is Sexy Most people with hEDS have soft skin and long limbs and fingers. We are elegant.
Hypermobility Is Agile While we may not be physically strong, we are nimble. We are beautiful dancers, gymnasts, yogis, and divers. Many of the most successful athletes are hypermobile.
Hypermobility Is Intelligent Flexibility of body leads to flexibility of mind, so we are open-minded, creative, curious, and resourceful. And, many of us have a frenetic energy that enables us, at times, to accomplish truly remarkable achievements in our careers, sports, and arts.
Hypermobility is Intuitive People with hypermobility tend to be more aware of their surroundings than others, sensing subtle dynamics in light and sound, sometimes recognizing smells below normal human thresholds, and noticing even minute vibrations, breezes, and physical sensations. Our talent for observation can be an asset in understanding the world around us.
Hypermobility can also bestow upon us a more detailed understanding of our own bodies than what most people experience. We may be an enigma to some doctors, but we are attuned to and conscious of what is happening inside us and how our systems react to various inputs and stimuli. All of this self-knowledge gives us wisdom, instantaneous and instinctive responsiveness, and uncanny intuitive abilities beyond what most people can claim.
We have a tendency toward anxiety that keeps us safe but also confers upon us impressive skills of foresight, perception, and a capacity to be calm and cool-headed during a crisis — we usually respond well when others panic.
Hypermobility Is Adaptive Hypermobility is thought to have been around for a very long time, indicating that it is a positive evolutionary trait. Because of our unusual physical troubles, we develop an enviable ability to cope and adapt by making changes in ourselves and in our environment. It is likely that hypermobile individuals, with their specific skill set, can be credited with some of the inventions, evolutions, and leaps of progress that humankind has made that have enriched our humanity.
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